What are great fat burning exercises

If you listen to most people that promote the latest fad diet system, you will hear which exercise that they say will burn fat. In reality the best fat burners are muscle tissue. If your body has more muscle then it will require more calories to support that muscle tissue. To get those calories, your body will draw on your fat reserves to supply the needed energy and nourishment your muscle tissue needs.

So the best exercises that will burn fat are the ones that build muscle. Cardio workouts like the treadmill are a great way to warm up your muscles for the real workout.

Foods that help you lose weight

I am often asked "what types of food should I eat to burn calories?" I just hate to tell them that there is no such thing as fat burning foods. I remember when I was young, my mother would religiously eat one banana and drink a small can of grapefruit juice for lunch everyday, to try and lose weight. She claimed that those foods burned off the fat in her body. I was just a kid and didn't know any better, so I took it as a fact.

When I got older and had more nutritional education, I realized that it was not the foods she ate but the small amounts of them that she ate. Both the grapefruit juice and banana amounted to about 200 calories for lunch. Topped with a small dinner of less than 800 calories and almost nothing of a breakfast, no wonder my short 5' mom was able to stay slim and tiny, she barely ate much at all.

The high cost of health insurance

If you have ever gone shopping for your own health insurance you would know the fact that age and weight often figures into the premiums. With the new Obama health insurance plan in the works I am not really sure how the new insurance quotes will be based. I would love to see everyone get the same rate no matter what age, size or credit rating they had. I can't help it if I am getting older just like everyone else or that I may have asthma, which was not my fault, so why should I pay more than someone 4 years younger than me? I guess I will be waiting to see how this all pans out - just like you are.

Your weight and looking for work

Our society (in the USA) is unfortunately one of being superficial. This fact is often more apparent when a woman (yep this post is aimed at the women readers for now) is looking for a job. While men are judged on their previous work history or education, women are judged first on their looks then their education and work history. It is not uncommon for men to be hired over the phone for a job without having that interview in person, but a woman is often called to come in for that interview.

Employers want to see what that prospective women employee looks like before they hire them. Employers are often more critical of a woman's looks for sales jobs, receptionists or other high public contact position. They claim that those positions are more as company representatives and they want to put out a good impression to the public. I say BS. It is just their method of discrimination, but how to you prove it?

Since the job market is very tight right now, women are getting their faces lifted, having tummy tucks done and above all else, going back to the gym for working out. While plastic surgery is very expensive and I don't recommend it at all, getting your body in shape, the cheap old fashioned way of working out, will not only benefit you but might increase your chances of securing that job you have wanted.